vigil English

Meaning vigil meaning

What does vigil mean?

Definitions in simple English

vigil Noun

— An occasion of staying awake during normal sleeping hours, especially to pray.

— A period of observation at any hour. His dog kept vigil outside the hospital for eight days while he was recovering from an accident.

— The eve of a religious festival in which staying awake is part of the celebration.

— A quiet demonstration in support of a cause. The protesters kept vigil outside the courthouse in which the trial was being held.

vigil

— noun a period of sleeplessness

— noun the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival)

— noun (= watch) a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe

Synonyms vigil synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as vigil?

vigil English » English

watch

wake

wakefulness

surveillance

agrypnia

vigilance during the night

vigilance

vesper

superintendence

spending the night awake

shift

sentinel

remark

pernoctation

observation

observance

night-waking

insomniac

guardian

guard

compliance

comment

Examples vigil examples

How do I use vigil in a sentence?

Simple sentences

We must maintain a constant vigil.

Movie subtitles

The priest from Torcy kept vigil for two nights by his friend's corpse.

Spears poised, they maintain their sleepless vigil.

Well, thus we end our lonely vigil, Mr. Gillie.

Perhaps this midnight oil will mark our vigil for the last time tonight.

You will start your vigil tonight, and recite the prayers for three nights, and I shall reward you handsomely for it. Otherwise.

Tonight, I will hold vigil in the chapel of thy castle. and, at dawn, receive from your hand. the ennobling stroke of knighthood.

Now, if you wouldn't mind. holding your vigil some other place?

Before a vigil?

True, it is not yet dawn. but I have kept vigil and proven myself in combat.

All night long, Mother keeps a vigil for her little lost one.

I'll have to sit vigil with him all night as well.

Sit the vigil.

Now, the very blustery night turned into a very rainy night, and Pooh kept his lonely vigil, hour after hour after hour.

If Earth's out there, we'll find it without you holding vigil.

Martin will keep vigil tonight.

I'll stay and keep vigil.

Shall I keep vigil with you?

We have a long vigil ahead of us tonight.

Ready for your vigil Lestrade?

What do you know about my vigil?

To begin a vigil, my friends.

So, if you were hoping to participate in a vigil prior to the funeral come back in a week's time.

With Clarence to reinforce her constant vigil, those eggs seemed safe for a while.

I kept a constant vigil at their door.

Little candle-lit vigil?

I'm preparing our Christmas Eve vigil feast.

At the end of his vigil Humason would retrieve the tiny galactic spectrum and carefully carry it down to be developed.

I ask that Consul Tremas keep vigil on my behalf.

I shall keep vigil for you, Seron.

We maintain a constant vigil.

He that shall live this day and see old age. will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors and say.

Only the Lovell's eldest son, Jay, is absent. as he holds vigil with his classmates. at the St. Johns Military Academy in Wisconsin.

Vigil lamps in the neighborhood at all hours.

The Vedeks are holding a 26-hour vigil.

It's been murder trying to find a good Elvis during the annual vigil.

The tour is closed in preparation for the vigil tonight, gentlemen.

We're setting up a vigil for tonight, for City Hall.

News and current affairs

The public reaction began with a demonstration in Seoul on May 2 in which hundreds of teenagers held a candlelight vigil.